"This is pouring another 5 billion gallons of oil on the fire every year and bulldozing a national forest in the process," said one critic. "It's a horrifying step in the wrong direction."
"The military-industrial complex's campaign spending spree gives war profiteers an outsized influence over Pentagon funding votes," said a Public Citizen campaigner.
America and the world would be far safer places if this outrageous spending was drastically cut and those funds redirected to "moral" investments in people, society, and planetary health—not war and weapons.
